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"If it does not achieve negative margins, a total mastectomy may be tecommended. Total Mastectomy A total mastectomy procedure entails the removal of the entire breast. This may include an axillary dissection as well. For women who have decided to have breast reconstruction, this procedure will directly follow the mastectomy sutgery. A total mastectomy is done under general anesthetic. Duting the operation, all of the bteast tissue is removed, including the nipple." - The Life Extension Editorial Staff, Disease Prevention and Treatment (Get the book.)

"She went on to have a complete mastectomy, including removal of the lymph nodes under her arm. During our next 15-minute appointment, she brought me up to date on the details of her care. She had recovered well from her surgeries and was about to begin chemotherapy. She was very happy with the care provided by a local cancer specialist. This positive attitude would serve her well in meeting the challenge of this illness, yet I worried that it might make it difficult for her to come to grips with the inevitable sadness and fear that accompany cancer." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"In an editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine, one physician concludes: Whether the resulting reduction in the risk of breast cancer, combined with intensive surveillance, is preferable to the more complete protection offered by prophylactic mastectomy is likely to remain a highly personal choice.35 Given what is known and what is yet unknown about these mutations, it seems to us that there should be a third choice: to carefully monitor the situation, but to avoid major surgery—which is not risk free—in the absence of symptoms." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Or the woman who had had a mastectomy who told Dr. Siegel that she "needed to get something off her chest." • The bottom line is that instead of being controlled by the things we say, instead of having our health compromised by idle words, we should put words to work for us. Try repeating to yourself over and over with each step you take when you walk, or while you're driving something like: "I'm joy. I'm peace. I'm health. I'm light." Or make up your own. If so, make it short and rhythmical, so it sort of says itself to a walking cadence. It really does work magic." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"Total Mastectomy A total mastectomy procedure entails the removal of the entire breast. This may include an axillary dissection as well. For women who have decided to have breast reconstruction, this procedure will directly follow the mastectomy sutgery. A total mastectomy is done under general anesthetic. Duting the operation, all of the bteast tissue is removed, including the nipple. For women considering breast reconstruction during or sometime aftet sutgery, as much skin as possible is left intact in order to cover the implant." - The Life Extension Editorial Staff, Disease Prevention and Treatment (Get the book.)

"The addition of local radiation therapy however, has remarkably reduced that risk, are increasing at a raoid ^ mastectomy the removal of most or all breast tis- sue, is done when the size and characteristics of the tumor indicate that a lumpectomy will not provide the best outcome. For most women considering a mastectomy, a modified radical mastectomy, which does not ' remove the muscles of the chest wall, has been shown to be equally as ef- fective as the more aggressive radical mastectomy. Other surgical procedures include ovarian ablation and treatment of metastatic disease." - Dan Labriola, Complementary Cancer Therapies: Combining Traditional and Alternative Approaches for the Best Possible Outcome (Get the book.)

"In one part of the country, practically every woman with breast cancer was still getting a mastectomy long after clinical trials had shown that a breast-sparing lumpectomy with radiation was just as effective. In another, babies were being put in neonatal intensive care units when they didn't need it. They found that patients with back pain were 300 percent more likely to get surgery in Boise, Idaho, than in Manhattan." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"In a minority of cases, patients receiving mastectomy are advised to receive radiation after the mastectomy. Dietary changes that may be helpful The following dietary changes have been studied in connection with breast cancer. Avoidance of alcohol An analysis of studies using the best available methodology found that women who drink alcohol have a higher risk of breast cancer compared with teetotalers.1 Alcohol consumption during early adulthood may be more of a risk factor than alcohol consumption at a later age." - Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D., The Natural Pharmacy: Complete A-Z Reference to Natural Treatments for Common Health Conditions (Get the book.)

"Clinical trials would finally show that lumpectomy with radiation was just as effective as mastectomy, and far less traumatic for many women. Other examples of widely accepted medical treatments that have been shown not to be effective and frequently harmful when valid studies are done include routine episiotomy, brain bypass surgery for patients with warning signs of stroke, and hormone replacement therapy to prevent a second heart attack in women. The list goes on." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"For localized cancers of the breast, it is well-established that removing the lump (lumpectomy) is just as effective and far less traumatic than removal of the entire breast, and perhaps the associated lymph glands (radical mastectomy) as well. The result of this activity is a huge number of gynecological surgeries of questionable necessity. CARDIAC SURGERIES Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States Each year, about 1.5 million suffer heart attacks; about a half million do not survive." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Not surprisingly, one year after her mastectomy, Mary began to complain of severe pain in her lower spine and left knee. Ten years earlier she had been diagnosed with cervical spondylosis29 in her lower spine, caused by abnormal outgrowth and ossified Chronobiology is the science of "body clocks" attuned to the earth's cycles and encoded in our cells. The human body is endowed with at least 100 such "clocks, which are unrelated to our watch time." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "Shortly afterward, he advised her to undergo a mastectomy of her right breast. The operation took place shortly before her menstrual period began. Much to her relief, her doctors informed her that they "got all the cancer" and the situation was now under control. Little did her doctors know that, according to the science of chronobiology,28 the risk of the cancer recurring is four times higher in women who undergo surgery one week before or during menstruation than for those who have surgery at other points in their cycle." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Furthermore, the mandate to have adequate margins may lead to offers of mastectomy with breast reconstruction on cosmetic grounds. The emotionality of the prose seems to vary if the authors are surgeons or pathologists or oncologists. Here's a sampling that substantiates all my assertions, if you are willing to read with an open mind: Morrow and Schnitt (2000), Page and Simpson (1999), Lerner (1998), Fonseca et al- (1997), and Page and Jensen (1996). Burstein et al. (2004) offer an uninspired "standard of care" update." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"Weight change in women treated with adjuvant therapy or observed following mastectomy for node-positive breast cancer. J. Clin. Oncol. 8, 1327-1334. 176. Ganz, P. A., Schag, C. C, Polinsky, M. L., Heinrich, R. L., and Flack, V. F. (1987). Rehabilitation needs and breast cancer: The first month after primary therapy. Breast Cancer Res. Treat. 10, 243-253. 177. Goodwin, P. J., Ennis, M., Pritchard, K. I., et al. (1999). Adjuvant treatment and onset of menopause predict weight gain after breast cancer diagnosis. /. Clin. Oncol. 17, 120-129. 178. Kornblith, A. B., Hollis, D. R., Zuckerman, E." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Her surgeon had her scheduled for a lumpectomy two days hence, and they both agreed he would perform a mastectomy if the mass was cancerous, which seemed very likely. I met her at my office at 5:00 the next morning. I used hypnosis to guide her into super-conscious awareness—a hypnotically induced state of deep meditation—where she remained for about forty-five minutes. When she opened her eyes, she was smiling. "What was that?" she asked. "I've never experienced such peace and joy. I was in my body and outside of it at the same time." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.)

"In a minority of cases, patients receiving mastectomy are advised to receive radiation after the mastectomy. Dietary changes that may be helpful The following dietary changes have been studied in connection with breast cancer. Avoidance of alcohol An analysis of studies using the best available methodology found that women who drink alcohol have a higher risk of breast cancer compared with teetotalers.1 Alcohol consumption during early adulthood may be more of a risk factor than alcohol consumption at a later age." - Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D., The Natural Pharmacy: Complete A-Z Reference to Natural Treatments for Common Health Conditions (Get the book.)

"No longer should any woman with a small breast cancer be offered mastectomy without due consideration of breast-conserving alternatives. The second point ?the more advanced the disease, the more likely it is lethal ?is the rallying cry for early detection. It led to the flowering of mammography and continues to be its driving force today. Early detection followed by a breast-conserving surgical cure is the Holy Grail. Certainly, such an approach holds more promise of cancer-free longevity than medical therapy of early or established disease." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.) "That is similar to the experience in Italy comparing simple mastectomy with removal of the quadrant of the breast with the tumor followed by radiation therapy (Veronesi et al. 2002). Of course, all patients with recurrences, and many with positive margins or nodes, were treated to the heuristic of the day: "adjuvant" (jargon for additional therapies that are thought to add to the initial therapy) chemotherapy. If the "adjuvant" of the day was effective, the effectiveness was not contingent on the initial approach to therapy." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.) "If the label "precancer" is allowed such weight, mastectomy seems sensible, particularly given the surgical hubris of the day. dcis is not a variation of normal; it's not a growth of normal cells. The cells of dcis have abnormalities of their chromosomes and often display molecular markers that are associated with evil breast cancers. There are no particular common features, just much biological heterogeneity. Nonetheless, it is likely that dcis is a stage in the development of breast cancer, or one subtype of breast cancer." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"Radiation therapy may be needed to help prevent recurrence of the cancer. 45 Mastectomy: Removal of the female breast because of the presence of breast cancer. A radical mastectomy involves removal of the breast, the lymph nodes under the arm, and the pectoral muscles. A modified radical mastectomy does not remove the pectoral muscles, and a simple mastectomy leaves both the lymph nodes and the pectoral muscles. Prognosis: Complete recovery expected from the procedure. Chemotherapy or radiation therapy may be needed to prevent recurrence of the cancer." - Deborah R. Mitchell, The Home Healing Almanac: Solutions That Will Help You Make the Best Choices About Your Health and Safety (Get the book.)

"These options include taking a drug such as tamoxifen and/or mastectomy. Tamoxifen is one of the most popular drugs taken to prevent breast cancer,39 40 but the long-term benefits of this option are not clear. One major U.S. study showed that tamoxifen administered over a period of four years to women at increased risk of breast cancer reduced the number of cases by an impressive 49%.41 This benefit, however, may be limited to women whose estrogen levels are very high. It was this result that led the U.S." - T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health (Get the book.)

"However, a large double-blind trial detected no benefit using 200 mg coumarin twice daily for six months in women who had arm edema after mastectomy (surgical breast removal).6 (Coumarin should not be confused with the anticlotting drug Coumadin.) A group of semi-synthetic flavonoids (page 516), known as hydroxyethylrutosides are also beneficial for some types of edema.7 One double-blind trial found that 2 grams per day of hydroxyethylrutosides reduced ankle and foot edema in people with venous disorders after four weeks." - Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D., The Natural Pharmacy: Complete A-Z Reference to Natural Treatments for Common Health Conditions (Get the book.)

"The Johns Hopkins Breast Center offers an outpatient mastectomy option for cancer patients. Here, the patients and their families are put through a trial run of the operation, from what the operating room looks like to how the wounds will appear after the surgery. Q With the discovery of two "breast cancer genes" (BRCA1 and BRCA2), gene therapy is receiving more attention. This research is still in its infancy and much more investigation in this area needs to be done." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

"Not surprisingly, one year after her mastectomy, Mary complained of severe pain in the lower spine and in her left knee. Ten years earlier she had been diagnosed as having cervical spondylosis34 in her lower spine, caused by abnormal outgrowth and ossified cartilage around the margins of joints of the vertebral column. This time, however, the examinations revealed that she had developed bone cancer in her lower spine and left knee." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"One of the options I've been thinking about is a mastectomy for my daughter, to remove both breasts. Do you have any advice?" This woman was in an exceptionally difficult position. Does she let her daughter grow up into a deathtrap, or grow up without breasts? Although extreme, this question represents a variety of similar questions faced every day by thousands of women around the world. These questions were especially encouraged by the early reports on the discovery of the breast cancer gene, BRCA-1." - T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health (Get the book.)

"Preventive mastectomy Brings Women Relief Ann Geiger, PhD, associate professor of public health sciences, Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC. Julia Smith, MD, PhD, director, Breast Cancer Screening and Prevention Program, New York University (NYU) Cancer Institute, and director, Lynne Cohen Breast Cancer Preventive Care Program, NYU Cancer Institute and Bellevue Hospital, New York City. Journal of Clinical Oncology." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"I stand by the usefulness of this fourth option even for women who have already had a first mastectomy. Using diet as an effective treatment of already-diagnosed disease has been well documented in human studies with advanced heart disease,4849 clinically documented Type 2 diabetes (see chapter seven), advanced melanoma50 (a deadly skin cancer) and, in experimental animal studies,51 liver cancer. Environmental Chemicals There is another breast cancer conversation that has been taking place for some years now. It concerns environmental chemicals." - T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health (Get the book.)

"A form of reconstructive surgery may be an option for women who have had a mastectomy. The procedure involves growing their own tissue from a sample of fat and blood vessel cells taken from the thigh or buttocks. Growth hormones are then added, actually causing the tissue to grow. This method, developed by ReproGene-sis with the help from researchers at the University of Michigan and the University of North Carolina, may be a better option for women who are considering breast reconstruction." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

"Out of fear, thousands of women elect to undergo total mastectomy. Why are so many mammograms misread? One primary reason is that postmenopausal women taking hormone replacement experience a 3.0% incidence of false positive mammograms, which is about 70% higher than women who don't take hormones. [Breast Cancer Research 8:R8, 2006] The idea that breast screening is effective for women age 50-59 years was shattered when researchers suggested that there are no reliable data to support screening by mammography." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.) "Almost two-thirds of women undergoing bilateral prophylactic mastectomy had at least one complication following surgery. [Journal National Cancer Institute Monograph 35: 61-6, 2005] Who's telling the truth about mammography? Millions of women worldwide will undergo mammography to screen for breast cancer annually. Here is what a woman is getting herself into once she submits to the idea of undergoing a mammogram. Worldwide, an estimated 75 million sets of mammograms are taken each year at 35,000 imaging centers." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.)

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